It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

`` Be careful of the word ' gay ', for it, too, has undergone a change.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

In I have things to do the word things makes little real contribution to meaning and has weaker stress than do.

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

It has to, by virtue of the very dictionary definition of the word `` few ''.

This push to confine the study of mass behaviour to the measurements of parameters involved in differential equations has led sociology perilously close to the reduction of the word `` mass '' to mean a small group in which certain relations between all pairs of individuals in such a group can be studied.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

If a statement has been assigned an address in the index word area

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

Of his own will he has begotten us by the word of truth.

Amen, amen, I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has life everlasting, and does not come to judgment, but has passed from death to life.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

You may be sure he marries her in the end and has a fine old knockdown fight with the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

For instance, the word " bank " has several distinct lexical definitions, including " financial institution " and " edge of a river ".

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

The context in which an ambiguous word is used often makes it evident which of the meanings is intended.

In popular usage, abjads often contain the word " alphabet " in their names, such as " Arabic alphabet " and " Phoenician alphabet ".

In the later novels Christie often uses the word mountebank when Poirot is being assessed by other characters, showing that he has successfully passed himself off as a charlatan or fraud.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.

Although the Greek word " techně " is often mistranslated as " art ," it actually implies mastery of any sort of craft.

The word Gringo is widely used in parts of Latin America in reference to U. S. residents, often in a pejorative way but not necessarily.

* Full stops / Periods in abbreviations: Americans tend to write Mr., Mrs., St., Dr .; the British will most often write Mr, Mrs, St, Dr, following the rule that a full stop / period is used only when the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the complete word.

Arrays are often used to implement tables, especially lookup tables ; the word table is sometimes used as a synonym of array.

In common speech the word artillery is often used to refer to individual devices, together with their accessories and fittings, although these assemblages are more properly referred to as equipments.

The word assassin is often believed to derive from the word Hashshashin ( Persian: حش ّ اشين, ħashshāshīyīn, also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin, or Assassins ), and shares its etymological roots with hashish ( or ; from Arabic: ).

West Berlin issued its own postage stamps, which were often the same as West German postage stamps but with the additional word " Berlin " added.

Medical terms related to blood often begin with hemo-or hemato-( also spelled haemo-and haemato -) from the Greek word ( haima ) for " blood ".

However, Bragning is often, like some others of these dynastic names, used in poetry as a general word for ' king ' or ' ruler '.

The number of bits ( or numeral places ) a CPU uses to represent numbers is often called " word size ", " bit width ", " data path width ", or " integer precision " when dealing with strictly integer numbers ( as opposed to floating point ).

Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while the word " carnivore " ( often popularly applied to members of this group ) can refer to any meat-eating organism.

A copula is often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case.

The word " Reserve " is also often included, such as the Reserve Bank of India, Reserve Bank of Australia, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the South African Reserve Bank, and U. S. Federal Reserve System.

The coining of the word cryptozoology is often attributed to Belgian-French zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans, though Heuvelmans attributes coinage of the term to the late Scottish explorer and adventurer Ivan T. Sanderson.

The word is often used in yogic practice to refer to celibacy or denying pleasure, but this is only a small part of what brahmacharya represents.

The concept of context-sensitive grammar was introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s as a way to describe the syntax of natural language where it is indeed often the case that a word may or may not be appropriate in a certain place depending upon the context.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.